Director, Global Fraud Technology - Service Reliability & Production Engineering

Requisition ID: 264923 

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Team

The Global Fraud Technology team develops and manages enterprise fraud capabilities that protect Scotiabank, its customers, and its employees across all channels and products. The Fraud Technology Service Reliability & Production Engineering organization is responsible for ensuring the reliability, stability, availability, and operational excellence of the Bank’s fraud technology ecosystem.

We partner closely with Fraud Operations, Fraud Strategy, Enterprise Operations, Infrastructure Services, Cyber Security, Payments Technology, Digital Banking, Canadian Banking, International Banking and Enterprise Technology teams to provide 24×7 operational support, incident management, service reliability, platform monitoring, production governance, and operational readiness across fraud technology platforms.

Our mission is to ensure fraud technology capabilities remain resilient, secure, highly available, and capable of supporting the Bank’s global operations and customer protection objectives.

The Role

The Director, Global Fraud Technology – Service Reliability & Production Engineering is accountable for the operational stability, reliability, and production support of the Bank’s fraud technology portfolio. This role leads a team of 25+ professionals — spanning FTE and managed services partners across Toronto, Bogotá, Bangalore, and Chennai — responsible for application support, production operations, site reliability engineering, observability, incident management, problem management, operational governance, environment management, release readiness, and service continuity.

The Director provides direct leadership to Senior Managers responsible for Fraud Production Engineering and Observability / Logging & Monitoring functions, and has strategic oversight of managed services partnerships, including vendor SLA governance, and operational delivery standards.

The Director is responsible for establishing operational excellence practices that ensure fraud technology services consistently meet availability, performance, resilience, and supportability objectives while minimizing operational risk. This includes driving the expansion of operational support coverage from current markets (Canada, Caribbean) to global fraud technology platforms across International Banking (Mexico, Peru, Chile and Uruguay)

The role works closely with technology, infrastructure, security, and business leaders to ensure production environments operate effectively and that operational risks are proactively identified and mitigated.

Key Accountabilities

Strategy & Leadership

• Develop and execute the multi-year Fraud Technology Operations strategy aligned with enterprise technology and fraud objectives, including the roadmap for expanding operational support from Canada and the Caribbean to all International Banking markets.
• Establish operational excellence frameworks, support models, reliability targets, and service management standards across the fraud technology portfolio.
• Define the future-state operating model for production support, service reliability, observability, and operational governance.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to improve service quality, resilience, and operational effectiveness.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on automation, operational maturity, and service reliability.
• Lead strategic vendor relationships supporting operational and monitoring capabilities.

Production Support Leadership

• Lead global support teams responsible for fraud technology platforms operating across multiple geographies and time zones.
• Establish support processes that ensure timely investigation, resolution, escalation, and communication of production issues
• Ensure critical fraud systems maintain agreed-upon availability and performance objectives.
• Drive operational readiness reviews and support transitions for new projects and platform releases.
• Establish strong partnerships with enterprise operations, infrastructure, and business support teams.
• Drive the expansion of operational support coverage to global fraud technology platforms, defining staffing, tooling, and process requirements for new market onboarding.

Incident & Problem Management

• Own major incident management processes for fraud technology services.
• Lead coordinated responses to critical production incidents impacting fraud detection, fraud response, customer protection, or operational capabilities.
• Establish root cause analysis and problem management disciplines to reduce recurring issues.
• Drive post-incident reviews and operational improvement initiatives.
• Ensure incident communications, escalation procedures, and executive reporting processes are effective and timely.

Site Reliability Engineering & Observability

• Lead adoption of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles across fraud technology platforms.
• Establish reliability engineering practices, operational metrics, and service-level objectives.
• Drive implementation of monitoring, observability, alerting, logging, and performance management capabilities.
• Improve proactive detection of operational issues through automation and intelligent monitoring.
• Develop operational dashboards and service health reporting for technical and business stakeholders.
• Establish data pipeline and ingestion monitoring capabilities

Platform Reliability & Resilience

• Ensure fraud technology services are designed and operated for high availability, resilience, and recoverability.
• Establish operational controls supporting business continuity, disaster recovery, and resiliency requirements.
• Partner with architecture, engineering, and infrastructure teams to improve platform reliability.
• Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, and infrastructure readiness activities.
• Identify operational risks and ensure mitigation strategies are implemented.

Change, Release & Environment Management

• Govern operational readiness for Fraud systems and ensure enterprise change processes awareness for production releases and platform changes
• Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment automation and release quality.
• Reduce operational risk associated with technology changes.

Operational Risk & Governance

• Ensure operational processes align with the Bank’s risk appetite, regulatory obligations, and technology governance frameworks.
• Maintain effective controls supporting audit, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Risk Management, Compliance, Audit, and Security teams to strengthen operational governance.
• Ensure operational procedures, runbooks, support documentation, and recovery plans remain current and effective.
• Establish measurable operational controls and service performance indicators.

Automation & Operational Efficiency

• Drive automation initiatives that improve support effectiveness and reduce manual operational activities.
• Implement self-healing capabilities, automated remediation processes, and intelligent operational tooling.
• Improve operational productivity through standardized processes and platform automation.
• Establish DataOps, DevOps, and SRE practices that improve operational efficiency and service quality.
• Reduce operational toil and increase engineering productivity.

Talent Leadership

• Build, lead, and develop high-performing operational support, SRE, platform engineering, and reliability teams spanning FTE and managed services resources across multiple geographies.
• Foster a culture of accountability, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and customer focus.
• Coach and mentor managers, senior engineers, and technical leaders.
• Develop succession plans and long-term talent strategies for critical operational leadership roles.
• Champion Agile, DevOps, SRE, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Manage the balance between FTE and managed services capacity to optimize cost, coverage, and capability.

General

• Champions a customer-focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.
• Understands how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, Code of Conduct, and Global Sales Principles while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to, and effectiveness of business controls relating to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions, conduct, cyber, and technology risk.

What You Will Bring to Succeed

Must Have

• 10+ years of progressive technology leadership experience supporting enterprise applications and platforms.
• 5+ years of experience leading production support, application operations, SRE, infrastructure operations, or enterprise service management teams.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing managers and multidisciplinary operational teams.
• Deep expertise in IT Service Management (ITSM), incident management, problem management, change management, and operational governance.
• Experience supporting mission-critical, high-availability platforms operating in 24×7 production environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Azure.
• Experience implementing monitoring, observability, automation, and reliability engineering capabilities.
• Experience managing operational risk, disaster recovery, business continuity, and resiliency programs.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and crisis management skills.
• Experience operating within highly regulated financial services environments.
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, DevSecOps, and platform engineering operating models.

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting fraud, payments, financial crime, risk, or customer protection platforms.
• Experience managing global support organizations operating across multiple regions and time zones.
• Knowledge of observability platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or equivalent technologies.
• Understanding of regulatory operational resilience expectations and technology risk management frameworks.
• Experience with data pipeline monitoring, data quality management, and fraud data ingestion ecosystems.

The Workplace

• We are technology partners who help the business transform how our employees around the world work.
• We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
• You’ll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world.
• We foster an environment of innovation and continuous learning.
• We care about our people, allowing them to design how they work to deliver amazing results.
• We offer a competitive total rewards package, including a performance bonus, company matching programs (on pension & profit sharing), and generous vacation.

Scotiabank

As Canada’s International Bank, we are a diverse and global team. We speak more than 100 languages with backgrounds from more than 120 countries. We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Toronto 

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.  

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our  Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.